Theseus temple

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Theseus temple after the restoration (2011)
Theseus Temple (2006)
Canova's Theseus sculpture, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Cross-sectional plan by Nobile shows the crypt

The Theseus Temple is a classicist building in the Volksgarten in Vienna's 1st district, Inner City .

architecture

The temple was built from 1819 to 1823 by the architect Peter von Nobile . It stands on a three-part step structure and the external dimensions are 14 × 24.7 m with a total height of 10.5 m. In technical terms, the structure is a so-called peripteros (ring hall temple) with six and ten columns. A pronaos (anteroom) and an opisthodom (rear hall) adjoin the cella (main room) . The metopes between the triglyphs have no motifs. The tympanum (gable above the lintel) is also empty. This scaled down replica of the Athens Theseion was used to set up the Theseusskulpture created by Antonio Canova . Canova helped build the temple. Since the building stands on the area of ​​the former moat, the foundation walls had to reach down very deep. The space created in between was not filled, but covered and used for a collection of Roman monuments. The separate entrance building has now been replaced by a large manhole cover.

The sculpture was transferred to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1890 and is located there in the intermediate landing of the main staircase. Today the temple serves as a backdrop for temporary exhibitions.

At the instigation of the Gauleiter and Reich Governor of Vienna Baldur von Schirach , the architect Hanns Dustmann was to create the unfinished architectural framing of the Heldenplatz from 1940 - the northwest wing of the New Hofburg had not been built. Dustmann did not plan to complete the missing twin to the already existing south-east wing, but designed Heldenplatz as a paved parade area with an open line of sight to the university ring, based on Hitler's templates . The Theseus temple should be moved to the central axis of the Heldenplatz. The temple was to be erected on a ten meter high substructure based on the model of the Walhalla near in Donaustauf and supplemented with wide flank structures in order to adapt it to the monumental rectangular space.

From 2008 to 2010 a comprehensive renovation of the desolate building was carried out. The temple was given the original, pure white color again.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Ruth Strondl: The Theseus Temple: Dialogue between ancient and contemporary art - perspectives and visionary concepts . Master's thesis, University of Applied Arts, Vienna 2010, (catalog entry / abstract)
  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Wien Innere Stadt 2003 , green spaces, Volksgarten, architecture, Theseus temple, p. 948.

Web links

Commons : Theseus temple  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Underground hall in the Volksgarten from: Gerhard Robert Walter von Coeckelberghe-Dützele, Die kaiserliche Burg in Wien, p. 184 (198 in the online edition)
  2. ↑ Entry on Theseus Temple in the Austria Forum , author / editing: Christa Veigl (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  3. ^ ORF documentary: Vienna - Hitler's City of Dreams, 2017, film by Anna Sigmund; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzK_KSM1UY , accessed on February 9, 2019.
  4. ↑ Heroic White - "Do you have it da jo de Augn ein" in the Standard of September 21, 2010, accessed on September 28, 2010
  5. ↑ Edmund de Waal Lichtzwang Modern & Contemporary ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. khm.at, April 30, 2014 to October 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.khm.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 42.3 ″  E